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Show LATEST DISPATCHES, GENERAL. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS I CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. SEX ATE. The discussion of the district of Columbia bill was continued. Amendments Amend-ments were submitted limiting the amount of bonds to be issued, to $15,000,000. Sargent, Thurman and others addressed the senate. Pending the discussion Bogy presented pre-sented a memorial of B. C. Bingham, Bing-ham, adjutant general of Missouri, asking the passage of a law authorizing author-izing the examination, allowance and payment of clainisof that state against the general government for supplies furnished United States troops during the late war. Military a flairs. Log in introduced a bill to establish a m ilt for the coinageot gold and silver at Chicago. A message was received from the house of representatives announcing 1 he death of Mr. Starkweather, -and the action of the houso thereon. The senate, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned till Monday. HOUSE. 1 The Wet Point -appropriation bill being under discussion, Hale asked Randall whether he did not propose to make any exceptions to that rule. Randall replied that as there were exceptions to all rulca, so the committee com-mittee had made important exceptions excep-tions to this rule. It had excepted, for instance, tho vice-president and librarian of congress, and they should continue to make exceptions in cases of meritorious and useful officers ol the government; but the policy of the gentleman from Maine (Hale) seemed lo indicate a determined purpose on the part of the other sido of the house to obstruct the committee in its economical reform movement. He hoped members on his aide of the house would march forward to the support of the committee on appropriations, appro-priations, for he declared to the house and to the people that in no particular particu-lar did that committee mean to do injustice in the least degree. Durham spoke against the reduction reduc-tion of the pay of cadets; said he was in favor of legitimate reductions, but would not bo led into this reduction by any party or leaders of a party. The question was taken on Hale't amendment and it was rejected GS to 96. Cox complained that the members of the republican side of the house were obstructionists to reform. They had commenced opposing reform on the Wc?t Point bill, where would they eud? They would oppose relorra or the navy hill, on tho army bill, on the consular aud diplomatic bill, and on the civil service bill. Where was reform to be begun if not here, on this particularly prodigal and luxurious lux-urious system at West Point? There was no other place where it could begin so well. He had here an order from Gen. Townsend, signed by order of the secretary of war, in which he read that no officer, either active or retired, shall directly or ind'recily, without being called upon by the proper authority, cuggest or recommend recom-mend any action to any member of congress on the question of military business. Ho inferred that the gentlemen from Maine and Illinois (Hale and Hurlbui) had the advant-ngo advant-ngo of some suggestions from the officers or from the professors at West Point, or pehaps from General Town-send. Town-send. Tiiis very curious order uf General Townsend contains also this sentence: The foregoing is not intended in-tended to prevent officers from illustrating illus-trating measures before congress which have received the sanction or favor of tiie president, secretary of war and the general of the army. .Now, Air. Chairman, I ask simply to I have this paper printed (alluding to General Tuwnsend's order) so Unit members can seo whoncc the information in-formation comes by which gentlemen on the other side of tho house propose pro-pose economy. Halo said : I do not propose to take any lessons in economy from the 'centleinan from New York. I have load some experionco in tnia house in attempting to reduce the expenditures uf the government. The committee on appropriations in past years has 30m tnrough a great work in that direction. Neither I, nor the chairman, chair-man, nor any mcmlwr uf that committee, com-mittee, nor any member ol this Bide uf the house ever received any a.iat-ance a.iat-ance in that work from the gent from New York (Cox), yet ho stands her to-day and points to us and to mo us st Hiding in the way ol reduction m the expenditures of tho government, and ho arrogates to himself and to his party the credit of first Beekiug to lessen tho bunions of the people. Mr. Chairman, that gentleman knows that we are to-day two months in advance ad-vance in this session. He knows that the main time has been taken up in the introduction of bills by himself and his friends on that sido of the houi'o, making fresh demands upon the treasury. He knows these cWinm aro coming up from the south in demands running from 1U to $ti0,0u0,O00, and that they aggregate ag-gregate ten times as much as the republican re-publican parly has saved heretofore. He knows that there is not a man in , the south who lost a mule through the advances of the federal army that is not coming up here ami clamoring for pay from the United States. He knows ihere is a claim here for $''0,-000.1)00 $''0,-000.1)00 to pay the cotton tax. The point of what I am saying is that when these claims come up and are pushed from that side ot the house he will not dare to vote against them Cox I have voted against them. Hale I will submit to the record when it comes up. I do not care what the gentleman has done in the past term. I know now that he is drawn along in the current which he cannot resiat, and that when these claims come up and the word is said to him by Ms masters, ho will not dare vote against them, and that tnese claims will be sustained with some exceptions, it may be on that side of the house, and I say now that 1 do not believe ho (Cox) will be in that exception. Cox, in reply tc Halo, said the gentleman cannot find any wrong in my recuni or rote, euner ior reirencn-ineut reirencn-ineut or prodigality, to justify him in suyiug that I have any masters except ex-cept the people, my constituents. vV hat did he mean by "my masters?" On what meat doth this our Cresar toed, that he is grown so great as to talk in that way to me ? Hale Does tho gentleman want me Lo answer ? Cox Yes, and promptly. Hale I mean the leading, denominating denom-inating influence of the party of which the gentleman is an active and nonored member in llueuces which he will be btmnd to follow and so far as I may eay so, without b.ing offensive, offen-sive, to obey. Cox That belongs to the future. The gentleman (Hale) has been inowu in the last three or four congresses con-gresses as "Blaine's little Bub." Garfield rose to a point of order, but Hale got in, in the uproar and confusion, his retort in these words : "I will put myself against the buzzing fly that was shooed out of reputation and fame by the late member lroro Massachusetts (Butler)," Garfield again called the gentlemen gentle-men to order and Cox asked him in a tone of injured innocence: Why did you aliow him to put me in that predicament? pre-dicament? Hale (defiantly) I do not call the gentleman to order. I hope he will be allowed to go on and that I shall be allowed to explain. Garfield I call the gentleman (Cox) to order and insist on his words being taken down, alluding to Hale as "Blaine's little Bub." Cox (in a .Pacific mood) I withdraw with-draw them. It is not worth while to take them down. Hale (in a belligerent mood) I am williag to put "shoo lly" against them. Cox That's a mall busiuess. It's only copying an old joke. The chairman inquired of Garfield whether he withdrew nis call ior the offensive words to be reduced to writ-ling. writ-ling. j Garfield said he would not insist on it. Cox I was only provoked to use them by the very unparliamentary language of my Iricnd from Maine. He had no right to attribute tome any servility. I never obeyed the be-nests be-nests of southern men. All through the war I stood by my country. He had no right to indulge in that. I never voted for the southern claims. I did not vote either for tho Centennial Centen-nial bill. Did the gentleman vote for it? Hale I did. Cox, (triumphantly) You voted for it this session, but last year you voted against it, aud gave good reasons rea-sons for it too. Hale rose to make a remark Cox You sit down if you please. Hale I have good reasons for both voles. Gx Now, keep courteous. The chairman interrupted the proceedings pro-ceedings and said: The chair feels it 113 duty to say emphatically that in a dignified bouse as this ought to be this constant clapping of hands and cheering is unbecoming, and the chair will appeal to the good eense and judgment and common civility and decency of the members ol the body, in asking them to refrain from it, and he will say to the people occupying occu-pying seats in the galleries, that if thi-y attempt it, the chair will at once order the galleries to be cleared. The chair cannot maintain order on the door of the houe unless every mem oer observes the dignity and courtesy .appropriate to the houee of represent-laiives. represent-laiives. Cox Baid ho entirely approved of the speaker's ruling, and continued his remarks. He said when the democratic aide ot the house, afiera bard old struggle to get into power, after scoundrehsm, alter swindling, ifter prodigality of many years, never straight, always crooked on your Hide of the house, (the republican) and on the part of tbe administration, crimes in here with one little bill lor West Point, not Becking to reduce expenditures expendi-tures beyond what they were in 'i)7; it is opposed by republican econo mists, eating their own words by going go-ing back on their own record. In the name of the people who are distressed, dis-tressed, in the name ot honest men everywhere, I protest in one word against the whole body of that side of the house, as wanting in fair, Bquare economy. All your platforms iavor retrenchment, and the people cry for it everywhere, and yet on the very first opportunity, when there is an honest bill brought in which cuts j down the hixtiriuiit living at West ! Point, the whole body of republicans fly in the face of their own platform and of their previous record. Conger and Garfield oppoied the reductions and Lamar favored them. Hale defeuded himself from the charge of inconsistency brought against him by Cox, in voting against the Centennial bill Ut congrea anri for it this cuuxress. Tho reason lor his vote against it last congress was that the bill then would have committed com-mitted to government the whole cost ol the exposition. He had never had an unpleasant personal controversy with any memler, but when in the midst of a discussion that was not personal but might be called ani-ma ani-ma oil, there was language, the use of which should only be heard in low places, and where such language was hurled at him, he was bo vain, he was apt to retort au he had done a few minutes ago, in language equally unparliamentary, for which he should probably, as he did now, in the presence pres-ence of the house, apologize. Cox Tho gentleman from Maine began these personal remarks by remarking that there were maRters over me. Finally tho discussion closed and tho committeo proceeded to vote on the amendment. Hamilton's amcndm'-iit making tho pay of cadtts $-340, witnout additional rations, ra-tions, was agreed to. All tho other amendments, either in regard to cadets or professors, were voted down. Without discussing the bill the committee com-mittee rose. Barnum offered resolutions for the appointment of a committee, of seven to take the order, for superintending tho funeral of H. H. Starkweather, late j member from Connecticut, who died in Washington this morning; that his remains be removed to Nor-walk, Nor-walk, Conn., under charge of the sergeant at-arms, and attended by the committee, and that as an additional mark 0!' respect the house adjourn. The resolutions wcro agreed to. Bar-num. Bar-num. Garfield, Wheeler, Phelps, Hoar, Landers, Conn., and Ash were appointed such committee, and the house adjourned. The session to-morrow will be for general debate only. A democratic caucus was announced for to-morrow evening. |